Posts Tagged with "Activism"
June 5, 2008
A far cry from commissioned corporate art, the latest project by Fauxreel (aka Dan Bergeron) aims at drawing awareness to residents of Regent Park (one of Toronto’s oldest social housing projects) that have been evicted from their homes because the buildings are being torn down and rebuilt.
According to Fauxreel, “The buildings of Regent Park are [...]

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January 29, 2008
Earlier this month, Inhabitat reported on a unique form of street art known as “Reverse Graffiti”, where, rather than the artist painting or wheat-pasting their creations, “they seek out soot covered surfaces and inscribe them with images, tags, and even advertising slogans using scrub brushes, scrapers and pressure hoses”.
This unique approach has become so popular [...]

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November 18, 2007
Brothers Ryan and Bryson Robertson and their good friend Hugh Patterson set out on a three-year circumnavigation of the globe. The purpose of their trip: to document and record marine pollution and its effect on isolated and deserted islands and beaches. In order to make their discoveries available to print and broadcast media, educational institutions [...]

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November 11, 2007
Built with the intention of raising awareness for the over two billion people living without toilets worldwide comes this toilet bowl-shaped residence located just outside of Seoul, South Korea. Commissioned by Sim Jae-Duck, a local politician, the $1.8 million US two-story glass and concrete structure features two bedrooms, two guest rooms, a center courtyard in [...]

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August 14, 2007
I have been suffering from a pretty terrible cold the last several days. Nasal congestion, fever, bad cough…you know how it goes. Anyways, from my experience, the only way to really get over a cold properly is to recline on the couch, drink lots of tea and whiskey, and of course - watch films.
Among the [...]

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May 14, 2007
In an attempt to raise awareness regarding the home confinement that Iraqi people are facing, Wafaa Bilal, an Iraqi Artist, is cooping himself up in a studio surrounded by web cams for the entire month of May. Bilal’s installation, “Domestic Tension,” is both avant-garde and challenging to the boundaries of what is politically correct.
Bilal, known [...]

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